Fwd: A use case for graph literals: Schemapedia (ISSUE-5)

Forwarded on behalf of Ian Davis:

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Ian Davis <me@iandavis.com>
> Date: 11 April 2011 18:30:42 GMT+01:00
> To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
> Cc: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>, RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: A use case for graph literals: Schemapedia (ISSUE-5)
> 
> Richard, Steve,
> 
> This won't make it to the WG list but feel free to share in full or part or simply ignore :)
> 
> My use case doesn't require access to the graph literals via sparql because I pre-analyze them and pull out useful things like the schemas being used. However I could do that on the fly if I had access to a sparql processor that understood graph literals as a built in datatype. Just like I can do date arithmetic on a set of xsd datetime datatypes in sparql I can conceive a subquery extension over embedded graphs.
> 
> Ian
> 
> On 11 Apr 2011 18:23, "Richard Cyganiak" <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote:
> > On 11 Apr 2011, at 14:33, Steve Harris wrote:
> >> I'm not sure in this situation you'd want example fragments to be handled as a named graph type of first class object, but maybe I'm missing the use-case.
> >> 
> >> Suppose I write
> >> 
> >> <some-schema> a :Schema ;
> >> :example "@prefix some: <http://some.schema.example> .\n<bob> some:has <Thing> .\n" .
> >> 
> >> Do I want those example triples to be accessible for e.g. in SPARQL queries?
> > 
> > In this particular case I don't think so.
> > 
> >> Or do I just want a convenient datatype to stash the literal text in RDF?
> > 
> > Yes. It would be more … accurate … to declare explicitly that this literal is a Turtle literal. That's all.
> > 
> > It's not a particularly powerful use case for graph literals, but a real one that I happened to come across.
> > 
> > Best,
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> - Steve
> >> 
> >> On 2011-04-08, at 11:32, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I just had a conversation with Ian Davis on Twitter that yielded a use case for defining datatype IRIs for graph literals. I thought I'd share it as input into ISSUE-5 [1].
> >>> 
> >>> He uses Turtle snippets as literals in SchemaPedia [2]. SchemaPedia is a site that helps find RDF vocabularies, and it lists example usage snippets for the vocabularies. The site's back-end is RDF-based. Turtle literals are used to store the examples, as well as change events when examples are modified. See [3] for a typical change event.
> >>> 
> >>> Currently Ian uses plain literals, because no datatype was readily available.
> >>> 
> >>> The idea of abusing Ivan's format URIs from [4] came up.
> >>> 
> >>> Best,
> >>> Richard
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/5
> >>> [2] http://schemapedia.com/
> >>> [3] http://api.talis.com/stores/openvocab/meta?about=http://open.vocab.org/changes/f07ca76699a536dd38b5cbbbe1ba181d&output=rdf
> >>> [4] http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/
> >> 
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